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Web Developer Checklist – This is a checklist that every web developer should checkout. It provides you with a basic check list of all the things you need to look at while building a website, but also gives you links to help you out with each item.

I’m always on the look out for ways to improve my front end development skills. I usually have to sift through heavily opinionated articles to find anything useful. Addy Osmani recently posted up a slide show with some really great performance tips. He has a bunch of great articles and I’ve learned a lot from them. You can check out the slides here. I’d highly highly encourage you to go through all the slides a couple times. Here are a couple of things that I took away that I now use all the time.Continue reading “Awesome jQuery performance tips by Addy Osmani.”

I have a fair amount of experience building mobile sites. Mobile sites are essential now because so many people are using mobile phones and tablet devices to browse the internet. Many sites don’t have great mobile experience. They use flash, rely heavily on hover effects, or they have so much content that it takes forever for the page to load.

I’m going to show how I made a mobile version of my site in just a couple hours using Asp.Net MVC and jQuery mobile. My site is primarily content and has very little code involved on it. My website is very basic and very straight forward. I browsed through my site and decided to find the basic information I wanted to display on my mobile version. In my case, I wanted to display my portfolio, resume, about me, contact me, some of my social links, and an about my mobile page so people could see what technology I used.Continue reading “Mobile Website Methods with Asp.Net MVC. Part 1 – Content Sites”

I worked up this idea after using some Facebook like buttons and the jScrollPane jQuery plugin. I’m a big fan of jScrollPane, but the iframes from the like buttons caused some unfortunate page flashing after document.ready fired.

I worked up this idea after using some Facebook like buttons and the jScrollPane jQuery plugin. I’m a big fan of jScrollPane, but the iframes from the like buttons caused some unfortunate page flashing after document.ready fired. Rendering the like buttons with FBML took even longer than the iframe method.